Annal:1991 Pulitzer Prize for History
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1991. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
- 1991 Pulitzer–History winner
- Score: 10.41
Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
- 1991 Pulitzer–History finalist
- Score: 6.41
This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or to go to the movies, whether to shop in local neighborhood stores or patronize the new A & P. Although workers may not have been political in traditional terms during the ‘20s, as they made daily decisions like these, they declared their loyalty in ways that would ultimately have political…
The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972
- 1991 Pulitzer–History finalist
- Score: 6.41
The civil rights era conjures up a wide range of dramatic images—sit-ins at segregated diners, burning churches, the massive march on Washington, police dogs and firehoses turned on protesters, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., lying dead from an assassin’s bullet. But off the streets another civil rights struggle was also waged, less violent and far less visible but no less momentous, as the vast machinery of the Federal government turned to the task of securing equal rights.
The Civil Rights Era offers the first comprehensive history of this other side…
America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink
- 1991 Pulitzer–History finalist
- Score: 6.41
It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused wide-spread unemployment. Stampp’s intensely focused look at this pivotal year illuminates the forces at work and the mood of the nation as it plummeted toward disaster.
